"My wish to learn jyotisha led me to Fairfield, Iowa where Michael Laughrin taught me its basic principles. He also introduced me to my next two teachers. First was Narendra Desai, a late life Indian emigre from Mumbai and a jyotisha master who had been inducted into its study as a teenager after a jyotishi saw his horoscope and told him he could master either jyotisha or Indian music, but not both, in his current incarnation. Narendra chose jyotisha. He was widely renowned for his profound grasp of the subject.